The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace containing something of the nature of the covenant of works, the soveraignty of God, the extent of the death of Christ ... the covenant of grace ... of surety or redemption between the by Samuel Rutherford ...

Title

The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace containing something of the nature of the covenant of works, the soveraignty of God, the extent of the death of Christ ... the covenant of grace ... of surety or redemption between the by Samuel Rutherford ...

Author

Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.

Publication

Edinburgh :: Printed by Andro Anderson for Robert Brown, and are to be sold at his shop ...,

1655.

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Subject terms

Covenant theology -- Early works to 1800.

Grace (Theology) -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• to the reader
• table of contents
  • Contents of the I. PART.
    • chapter - 1
    • chapter - 3
    • chapter - 4
    • chapter - 5
    • chapter - 6
    • chapter - 7
    • chapter - 8
    • chapter - 9
    • chapter - 10
    • chapter - 11
    • chapter - 12
    • chapter - 13
    • chapter - 14
    • chapter - 15
    • chapter - 16
    • chapter - 17
    • chapter - 18
    • chapter - 19
    • chapter - 20
    • chapter - 21
    • chapter - 22
    • chapter - 23
    • chapter - 24
    • chapter - 25
    • chapter - 26
    • chapter - 27
    • chapter - 28
  • Contents of the II. Part.
    • chapter - 1
    • chapter - 2
    • chapter - 3
    • chapter - 4
    • chapter - 5
    • chapter - 6
    • chapter - 7
    • chapter - 8
    • chapter - 9
    • chapter - 10
    • chapter - 11
    • chapter - 12
• Errata.
• THE COVENANT OF LIFE OPENED.
  • CHAP. I. What is to be spoken of the COVENANT of LIFE, shall be reduced to these Heads.
  • CHAP. II. Propositions touching ADAMS Covenant-state.
  • CHAP. III. What is the intent and sense of the threatning, Gen. 2.17. In the day thou eats, thou shalt die. And Gen. 3.20. Dust thou art, &c.
  • CHAP. IV. The Elect non-converted are not under Law-wrath. 2. Faith is no cause of satisfaction. 3. Christ can not have satisfied for the sins of the Reprobate.
  • CHAP. V. God intended a Law-dispensation but for a time. 2. A∣dam, how he was ordained for a Law-life. 3. How predestinated to Glory in Christ, how not. 4. That the Heathens have no more Universall Grace then Devils. 5. No ground for such grace.
  • CHAP. VI. It was condescension in the Lord to enter in Covenant with man. 2. Temptations in fearing we are not chosen, dis∣covered. 3. Beings and not beings are debtors to God. 4. Self denyall required in sinlesse nature, as in sinfull. 5. Man considered three wayes.
  • CHAP. VII. Its not written in the heart of man by nature, that GOD should promise life eternall to man, upon condition of obedience. 2. And that the debt of Justice can not tye GOD. 3. GOD punisheth not sin, by necessity of na∣ture. 4. Nor defends he his own declarative Glory by that necessity. 5. Nothing can be given to GOD Al-sufficient. 6. No meriting of the creature. 7. We should have humble thoughts of free-Grace. 8. How low thoughts of our selves. 9. Promises make no strict justice between GOD and us.
  • CHAP. VIII. What place death hath in the Covenant. 2. What such as Cain and Judas are to do in their desperate state. 3. And why the LORD is no where called the GOD of Adam.
  • CHAP. IX. What life is promised in the Covenant of Works. 2. Whe∣ther all we, especially the Reprobate, by the fall, lost all right to the creatures. 3. How the Lord is our God.
  • CHAP. X.
  • CHAP. XI. The three-fold Covenant considered. 2. The Law pressed upon Israel was not a Covenant of Works, but a darker di∣spensation of Grace. 3. The three-fold Covenant of Armi∣nians refuted. 4. Diverse considerations of the Law and the Gospel.
  • CHAP. XII. 1. All are to try under what Covenant they are. 2. Threat∣nings under the New Testament are more spirituall 3. Desertions under both are compared. 4. Considerable dif∣ferences of such as are under the Covenant of Works, and such as are under the Covenant of Grace. 5. Of legall terrors. 6. Of convictions compelled, free, legall, &c.
  • CHAP. XIII. There are two sorts of Covenanting, on externall, professed, visible, conditionall, another internall, reall, absolute and the differences betwixt them. 2. Infants external∣ly in Covenant under the New Testament 3. Some Questi∣ons touching infants.
  • CHAP. XIIII. Considerations of the Arguments from Gen. 17. Mark 10.15, 16. Luke 18. Math. 19. Rom. 11. for Infant Baptisme.
  • CHAP. XV. The differences of externall and internall Covenanting. 2. No Universall Grace, Rom. 10.18. Psal. 19.3. nor in Scripture. 3. Nor power of beleeving to all given by Christ.
  • CHAP. XVI. Cases from the former Doctrine. 1. The differences betwixt such as are externally, visibly, and conditionally, and such as are internally and perso∣nally in Covenant with God. 2. Gods esteem, not mens, make Nations Visible Churches. 3 The first and prime subject of speciall Church-priviledge. 4. Gods command to receive seals, no warrand to all members to challenge them.
  • CHAP. XVI. 1. Of the hypocrisie, of formall Covenanters. 2. Self-deceit. 3. The new Spirit. 4. Revelations and Pro∣phecies. 5. Markes of a Spirituall disposition.
  • CHAP. XVIII. The new heart of Covenanters, the Nature, Characters, Properties thereof, hitherto of the new Spirit.
  • CHAP. XIX. 1. The place of Evangelick works in the New Covenant. 2. Possession of glory and right to glory considerably different. 3. A twofold right to life. 4. We are not ju∣stified by Works. 5. The place of declarative justificati∣on by Works, Jam. 2. discussed. 6. Faith and Works different. 7. Possession of life and right to life cleared. 8. Faith and finall believing both commanded in the Law, finall unbelief not the sin forbidden in the Gospel onely. 9. How life is promised to works Evangelick.
  • CHAP. XX. Whether or not suffered Christ for any sin against the Gospel only, such as unbeleef finall, which is conceived to be the only sin against the Gospel. That Christ died not for all without exception. The unwarrantablenesse of that Doctrine, how the Law commands justifying faith and repentance, how not.
  • CHAP. XXI.
  • CHAP. XXII. The differences in the promise of the Covenants.
  • CHAP. XXIII.
  • CHAP. XXIII. Whether faith as lively and true, or faith as continuing to the end, be the condition of the Covenant of Grace?
  • CHAP. XXIV. What faith is required in the Gospel.
  • CHAP. XXV.
  • CHAP. XXVI. Of the property of the Covenant of Grace, the perpetuity thereof.
  • CHAP. XXVII. Of cases of Law-fear, and Gospel-faith: How a child of God fears Law-threatnings.
  • CHAP. XXVIII. Christ died not to blot out the sense of sin, but rather to quic∣ken a Godly sense thereof.
• PART II. Of the Mediatour of the Covenant.
  • CHAP. I.
  • CHAP. II. Wherein stands our right to Christ and the satisfaction made for us by Christ? 2. Faith is not the cause of our right. 3. Christs incarnation and dying are not favours merited by Christ. 4. How Adams sin and Christs righteousnesse are ours.
  • CHAP. III. How Christ suffered for us in our roome and place. 2. He died not for all and every one. 3. How many wayes Christ is said to die in our stead. 4. The Lords so dying for all makes not all saveable, nor the Gospel Preachable to all Nations. 5. Christ died in the stead of the Elect.
  • CHAP. IV. Now we are i Christ dying, and crucified in him. 2. A twofold crucifying of us with Christ. 3. A discourse of mortification. 4. The actings of the mortified. 5. That we are to be mortified in our affections to every thing that is not God, &c.
  • CHAP. V. Of the Covenant of Redemption between God and the Me∣diator Christ. 2. Christ is not a bare witnesse to confirm the Covenant, but the Author of the Covenant. 3. The Socinian way of works cannot quiet the conscience. 4. Christ is upon both sides of the Covenant. 5. Justice me∣diat not. 6. Reasons of the entrance of sin.
  • CHAP. VI. Q. 11. Whether there be any such thing as a Covenant of Suretyship or Redemption between JEHOVAH and the Son of GOD? That there is such a Covenant, is proven by 11. Arguments.
  • CHAP. VII. The Covenant of Redemption is explained in three eter∣nall acts. 1. Designation, decree or ordination, and delectation in the work. 2. Mercy and peace, truth and righteousnes are agreed in this Covenant. 3. The designed sending of the Spirit cannot be a Covenant as this was. 4. The twelfth Argument. 5. The thoughts of eter∣nall love.
  • CHAP. VIII. The differences between the Covenant of Suretyship or Re∣demption made with Christ, & the Covenant of Reconcilia∣tion and of Grace made with sinners. 2. The conjunction of the Covenants. 3. How the promises are made to the Seed, that is, to Christ, the meaning of the place, Gal. 3.16. 4. Christ acted and suffered alway as a publick head.
  • CHAP. IX. The 13. Argument, from the necessity of Gods call. 2. Of Typicall sprinkling of the blood of the Covenant, and of the Testament: The place, Heb. 13.20. the blood of the everlasting Covenant opened. Of the place, Heb. 7.22. the act of suretyship, the assurance of our state.
  • CHAP. X. Christ procures the Gospel to be Preached to Reprobats, but undertakes not for them. A necessary distinction of the Covenant as Preached according to the approving will of God, and as acted upon the heart, according to the decree of God: and the differences of the members. The place, Jer. 31. Heb. 8. This is my Covenant, opened.
  • CHAP. XI. Of the promises made to Christ in the Covenant of Mediati∣on, not to Christ-God, but to Christ God and Man the Me∣diator, and these of twelve sorts.
  • CHAP. XII. The condition and Properties of the Covenant of Redemption.